Beautiful vs Precocious - What's the difference?
beautiful | precocious |
Attractive and possessing charm.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=5 (of the weather) Pleasant; clear.
Well executed.
(as a pro-sentence ) How beautiful that is!
(as a pro-sentence; ironic ) How unfortunate that is!
Characterized by exceptionally early development or maturity.
* {{quote-news, year=2014
, date=November 14
, author=Stephen Halliday
, title=Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero
, work=The Scotsman
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Exhibiting advanced skills at an abnormally early age.
As adjectives the difference between beautiful and precocious
is that beautiful is attractive and possessing charm while precocious is characterized by exceptionally early development or maturity.beautiful
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’}}
- (referring to an athlete catching a ball)
Usage notes
The comparatives beautifuler' and '''beautifuller''', and the superlatives '''beautifulest''' and ' beautifullest have also occasionally been used, but are considered dated or obsolete.Synonyms
* (possessing charm and attractive) beauteous, attractive, cute, fair, good-looking, gorgeous, sheen, handsome, hot (slang), lovely, nice-looking, pretty, shapely, fit (slang) * (of the weather) clear, fine, nice, pleasant, sunny * (well executed) excellent, exceptional, good, great, marvellous/marvelous, perfect, stylish, wonderful * great, marvellous/marvelous, nice, very nice, wonderful (any of these can be prefixed with an intensifier such as'' bloody, damned ''or just) * See alsoAntonyms
* (possessing charm and attractive) grotesque, hideous, homely, plain, misshapen, repulsive, ugly; unbeautiful * (of the weather) bad, cloudy, dull, miserable, overcast, rainy, wet * (well executed) average, bad, mediocre, poor, shoddy, substandard, terrible, weakDerived terms
* beautiful armadillo * beautiful game * beautiful people * beautifully * beautifulnessprecocious
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Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=Scotland’s most encouraging early source of an attacking threat was Andrew Robertson as the precocious left-back charged forward to good effect on a couple of occasions. }}
- Both groups, also, have already evolved precocious (intracapsular) spore germination.
- The precocious child began reading the newspaper at age four.
